CVE-2023-38538
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-04 19:10
Modified
2024-09-19 15:27
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
A race condition in an event subsystem led to a heap use-after-free issue in established audio/video calls that could have resulted in app termination or unexpected control flow with very low probability.
References
| ▼ | URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| cve-assign@fb.com | https://www.whatsapp.com/security/advisories/2023/ | Vendor Advisory |
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